Frank Nolan, Vedder Price Shareholder and member of the Global Transportation Finance team, recently contributed to the first edition of Getting the Deal Through–Ship Finance 2014, a new volume in their series of annual reports that provide international analysis in key areas of law and policy. Mr. Nolan wrote the chapter on maritime law in the Marshall Islands. Mr. Nolan was principal draftsman of the Marshall Island law on the treatment of financing charters on preferred mortgage, enacted into law in March 2013.

Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. This article was first published in Getting the Deal Through – Ship Finance 2014 (published in July 2014; contributing editor: Lawrence Rutkowski, Seward & Kissel LLP).